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Cal. Gov. Code § 65563

Open-Space Lands

Known as the Planning and Zoning Law

The act spans §§ 65000 to 66499.58 (597 sections).

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. City of San Diego (1981)

Most recently applied in 592 F. Supp. 463 - Furey v. City of Sacramento (August 1984)

Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 120.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

On or before December 31, 1973, every city and county shall prepare, adopt and submit to the Secretary of the Resources Agency a local open-space plan for the comprehensive and long-range preservation and conservation of open-space land within its jurisdiction. Every city and county shall by August 31, 1972, prepare, adopt and submit to the Secretary of the Resources Agency, an interim open-space plan, which shall be in effect until December 31, 1973, containing, but not limited to, the following:

(a) The officially adopted goals and policies which will guide the preparation and implementation of the open-space plan; and

(b) A program for orderly completion and adoption of the open-space plan by December 31, 1973, including a description of the methods by which open-space resources will be inventoried and conservation measures determined.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.